(This article has excellent descriptions of the effects of European contact on the native people, plus the struggle between Europeans and Native Americans for land, and the structure of Colonial society--the difrerent roles of men and women - for this, you have to look under the section called: Voting and Other Rights)
DUTCH SETTLERS RESOURCES
1. "Trade and then Trouble"
2. World Book Online
(This article has excellent descriptions of the effects of European contact on the native people, plus the struggle between Europeans and Native Americans for land, and the structure of Colonial society--the difrerent roles of men and women - for this, you have to look under the section called: Voting and Other Rights)3. New Netherlands
4. Dutch Colonies
5. Colonial Culture
6. European Influences in New York State
7. Fur Trading
8. WOMEN IN COLONIAL AMERICA
BOOKS
Harcourt Horizons New York
Chapter 3 (This is your 4th grade Social Studies textbook)